I think Peter is referring to a paper
Gutierrez, R. G. and Lachenbruch, P. A. 2009.
Stata tip 74: firstonly, a new option for tab2. Stata Journal 9: 169-170.
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0161
which as stated is about a new option for -tab2-, a different command.
Nick
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Lachenbruch, Peter
<Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu> wrote:
> Bobby Gutierrez and I developed the tab1 option as a convenience for people who want to look at a bunch of tables and not have to issue multiple tab commands. To my knowledge we didn't do anything about weights.
David Kantor [kantor.d@att.net]
> Does anyone know if there is a logical reason that -tab1- allows only
> fweights, whereas -tabulate- allows almost all types of weights?
>
> I'm guessing that it's a relic from when -tabulate- had fewer weight options.
> Any other reason?
>
> I use Stata 10, but I believe that this holds in Stata 12.
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